Theory offers methodology to understand why states prefer conflict in certain situations and prefer cooperation with the same entities with which they do not see eye-to-eye.
The list below includes books that shows how international relations has evolved throughout history.
Topics include:
- Realism
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- English School of Thought
- Constructivism
- Feminism
- Neo-Marxism and Critical Theory
- Third World Studies
- Post-Colonialism
- Norms and Ethics
Realism
Theory of International Politics
byKenneth N. Waltz
Politics Among Nations
byHans J. Morgenthau
Twenty Year's Crisis, 1919-1939
byE. H. Carr
History of Peloponnesian War
byThucydides
Progress in International Relations Theory: Appraising the Field
byColin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
byJohn J. Mearsheimer
International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Ancient Greeks to the First World War
byChris Brown, Terry Nardin and Nicholas Rengger
Classical Theory in International Relations
byBeate Jahn
Complexity in World Politics: Concepts and Methods of a New Paradigm
byNeil E. Harrison
Explaining and Understanding International Relations
byMartin Hollis
Perception and Misperception in International Politics
byRobert Jervis
Liberalism
Power and Interdependence
byRobert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye
Games of Strategy
byMorris Wood and Avinash K. Dixit
The Evolution of Cooperation
byRobert Axelrod
Strategic Choice and International Relations
byDavid A. Lake
Marxism
The German Ideology
byKarl Marx
Traditions of International Ethics
byTerry Nardin and David R. Mapel
Rethinking International Relations
byFred Halliday
English School of Thought
The English School of International Relations: A Contemporary Reassessment
byAndrew Linklater and Hidemi Suganami
The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics
byHedley Bull
International Theory: Critical Investigations
byJames Der Derian
Constructivism
Constructivism in International Relations: The Politics of Reality
byMaja Zehfuss
World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations
byNicholas Greenwood Onuf
Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalization
byJohn Gerard Ruggie
Social Theory of International Politics
byAlexander Wendt
Feminism
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
byCynthia Enloe
Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era
byChristin Sylvester
Gender in International Relations - Feminist Perspectives on Achieving Global Security
byJ. Ann Tickner
Critical Theory and Neo-Marxism
The Theory of Communicative Action: The Critique of Functionalist Reason
byJurgen Habermas and Thomas McCarthy
Introduction to Critical Theory: Horkheimer to Habermas
byDavid Held
Critical Theory and World Politics: Citizenship, Sovereignty and Humanity
byAndrew Linklater
Critical Theory and World Politics
byRichard Wyn Jones
Beyond Realism and Marxism: Critical Theory and International Relations
byAndrew Linklater
Men and Citizens: A Study of Rousseau's Social Theory
byJudith N. Shklar
The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations
byJustin Rosenberg
Antonio Gramsci: Selections from the Prison Notebooks
byAntonio Gramsci
Norms and Ethics
Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach
byMolly Cochran
Ethics in International Relations: A Constitutive Theory
byMervyn Frost
International Relations Theory: New Normative Approaches
byChris Brown
Political Theory and International Relations
byCharles R. Beitz
Order and Justice in International Relations
byRosemary Foot, John Gaddis and Andrew Hurrell
Third World Studies
International Relations Theory and the Third World
byStephanie Neuman
Third World Security Predicament: State Making, Regional Conflict and the International System
byMohammed Ayoob
Towards an Islamic Theory of International Relations: New Directions for Methodology and Thought
byAbdul Hamid A. Abu Sulayman
Global Voices: Dialogues in International Relations
byJames Rosenau and Steve Smith
Post Colonial
Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture
byCary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg
Politics and Post-Colonial Theory: African Reflections
byPal Ahluwalia
Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction
byLeela Gandhi
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Aditi mam.... Informative list ... I read J J MEARSHEIMER and Robert Jervis... Have listed down in my notebook .. Will purchase a few personally and demand for my college
ReplyDeleteThank you for your encouraging words. International relations is a vast subject with tons to read. One only grows intellectually with each finished book. So keep up with it.
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